https://ciaranwalsh.studio Ciarán Walsh Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:23:23 +0000 https://ciaranwalsh.studio en https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Front-page Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:07:09 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Front-page <img width="2880" height="1616" width_o="2880" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/797d5a58913482d693e3664f95371ffab3e1ca58599fd8601c3fb23c54857326/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-11.38.46.png" data-mid="229790121" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/797d5a58913482d693e3664f95371ffab3e1ca58599fd8601c3fb23c54857326/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-11.38.46.png" /> <img width="1270" height="1693" width_o="1270" height_o="1693" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a99f376d6545b147189f72359335e0bc2c90acb9cd52aaa4401c26ff93b8d7a/Cuttings-II-web-2.jpg" data-mid="229790023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a99f376d6545b147189f72359335e0bc2c90acb9cd52aaa4401c26ff93b8d7a/Cuttings-II-web-2.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1511" width_o="1500" height_o="1511" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8a7298c476e4a404971ba7412459b88aa618d66f6969a1b25eaf38e672a8960/This-is-the-source-3-cropped.jpg" data-mid="227281604" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8a7298c476e4a404971ba7412459b88aa618d66f6969a1b25eaf38e672a8960/This-is-the-source-3-cropped.jpg" /> <img width="1760" height="2480" width_o="1760" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6407ea7ab4328f125e3ef40570320b36ee5441047e76b20721a7546045592b89/The-Reading-Room-Flutgraben.jpg" data-mid="229790198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6407ea7ab4328f125e3ef40570320b36ee5441047e76b20721a7546045592b89/The-Reading-Room-Flutgraben.jpg" /> <img width="2796" height="1527" width_o="2796" height_o="1527" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e32a89c7e848cc33a957bf961dee2a1e78fcca715c095dda45f0586a229911e/default_1.86.3-2.jpg" data-mid="229789421" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e32a89c7e848cc33a957bf961dee2a1e78fcca715c095dda45f0586a229911e/default_1.86.3-2.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="692" width_o="1280" height_o="692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cabe52d80c71751a5ebc4ca4fbfc783c040dadd509c94c5e64c874ea8376d26c/thepark03.jpeg" data-mid="229790206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cabe52d80c71751a5ebc4ca4fbfc783c040dadd509c94c5e64c874ea8376d26c/thepark03.jpeg" /> https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Information Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:07:09 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Information Ciarán Walsh (b. Ireland, 1980) is an artist, curator and cultural manager based in Berlin, Germany. His artistic work explores place, memory, and transformation, commonly utilising the spectral as a tool of exploration. Walsh has shown his work at numerous galleries and art spaces internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including Kunsthalle Bratislava, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, MuHKA in Antwerp, Project Art Space in Dublin, VISUAL - National Centre for Contemporary Art in Carlow, and Ujazdowski Castle CCA in Warsaw. He produced two artists’ novellas Vortices and The Sickness, utilising sci-fi and pulp fiction modes to generate textual book artworks. Most recently he completed a documentary-style film work,&nbsp;Here is Some Place Else, exploring the actos of memory around a disappeared village in eastern Germany. Additional to his studio practice he has undertaken curatorial, archival and editorial work on diverse visual arts and cultural projects, among them The Reading Room a project focusing on the publication-based artworks, with manifestations in Berlin, Birmingham, Dublin and Paris, and the public arts projects Hedgeschool&nbsp;and Sweet Futures. As a cultural manager, he was part of the core team that delivered&nbsp;Zeitgiest Irland 24, a year-long programme of contemporary Irish arts in Germany in 2024. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2175ae5057d2764a4b500c19acf77976a9bb1cc493291658d171de30f118c844/portrait-June2024.jpeg" data-mid="217386475" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2175ae5057d2764a4b500c19acf77976a9bb1cc493291658d171de30f118c844/portrait-June2024.jpeg" /> Solo Exhibitions, Screenings &amp; PerformancesBetween a tenth and a fifteenth, Studio Beta, Berlin, Germany, 2021Beyond Other Voices, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland, 2014 The Ghost of an Image, insitu (web radio broadcast), Berlin, Germany, 2014 The Ghost of an Image, The Drawing Room, Dublin, Ireland, 2014They Echo in the Sublime Stillness of Infinity, Light &amp; Wire (digital platform), Los Angeles, USA, 2013 It's Just a Shadow Away, Stedefreude, Berlin, Germany, 2012It's Just a Shadow Away, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany, 2012 this brief visual pattern, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland, 2011Conduit and Iris Stream, VISUAL – Nation Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland, 2009Samizdat, Unit H, Dublin, Ireland, 2008Archipelago &amp; Other Stories Four Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2006Group Exhibitions &amp; Events (Selected)Irish Energy, Die Möglichkeit Einer Insel, Berlin, Germany, 2024It’s Hard Being a Character in Somebody Else’s Novel, Kreig?, Hasselt, Belgium, 2023*Reading Artist’s Books, HGB Leipzig, Germany, 2022La Historia Comienza Aqui, La Madraza, Granada, Spain, 2022*Caretaking 2020-21, The Watch, Berlin, Germany, 2021Ulysses Expanded, Embassy of Ireland (digital platform), Berlin, Germany, 2021Editorial Thinking, Index, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021*Sea Change, dlr lexicon, Dublin, Ireland, 2018Montage ou la Bibliothèque à Venir, Frac france-comté, Besançon, France, 2018* Into the Mu, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017The House That Heals the Soul, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 2017*Artists' Novels Collection, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw, Poland, 2017*Faraway Longings, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany, 2016How Far is Here, MAGO, Eidsvoll, Norway, 2015Felt and Fa(c)t – difference to other, Laois Arthouse, Stradbally, Ireland, 2014The Line of Beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland, 2013False Optimism, Crawford City Gallery, Cork, Ireland, 2013p.s., João Cocteau, Berlin, Germany, 2012Letters from the Field, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 2012Instantaneous Personal Magnetism, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland, 2010Surface &amp; Reality, Arts Week programme, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2010Aion Experiments, Project Arts, Dublin, Ireland, 2010The Bridge, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, 2008Menschheit, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland, 2008Hinterlands: Liam Campell and Ciarán Walsh, Broadstone XL, Dublin, Ireland, 2007Conspirators of Pleasure, La Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, 2006Imagined – Visions of Architecture, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, 2006Flagged, Visualise public sculpture programme, Carlow, Ireland, 2005Elsewhere from Here, Workroom, Dublin, Ireland, 2003Haunted, City Arts Centre, Dublin, 2003 Curatorial, &nbsp;Archival &amp; Editorial WorkIrish Energy, exhibition with various invted artisits, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin, 2024** The Reading Room, library, exhibitions and events, various invited artists &amp; writers, Flutgraben Berlin, Grand Union Birmingham and diverse temporary sites, 2010-12***Travelogue Art Zine, edited publication series, various invited artists &amp; writers, Berlin, 2008-10Sweet Futures, public art commission, invited artist Sarah Browne, Carlow, 2007Hedge School, public art commision, invited artist Glenn Loughran, Carlow, 2006Forgotten Zine Library, archive, library, exhibitions &amp; events, Dublin, 2004-2007Residencies &amp; Research PlacementsThe Watch, Flutgraben e.V., Berlin, Germany, 2021Kolleg IX, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany, 2007Exercises in Folkatronika, The Scultptors’ Society of Ireland, 2003CollectionsThe Book Lovers collection at MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium (and touring)Various private collectionsAwarding &amp; Funding BodiesStiftung KunstfondsThe Arts Council of IrelandBerufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen BerlinThe Sculptors’ Society of IrelandVisualise Programme CarlowCarlow County CouncilPercent-for-Art Scheme, IrelandGoethe Institut Irland *work exhibited as part of The Book Lovers collection**initial co-curatorial work; final exhibition curated solely by Sheena Malone ***co-curated with Dominique Hurth Text and images © Ciarán Walsh, 2003-2025, except where otherwise credited. Additional artwork texts by Jonathan Ferguson (J.F.). Artist portrait photo by Neil Hoare. The contents of the website are protected under copyright law. No content from this website may be used or reproduced in any form without previous written consent. https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Here-is-Some-Place-Else Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:07:10 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Here-is-Some-Place-Else <img width="3840" height="1634" width_o="3840" height_o="1634" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8973a03babc32ef9add10eb3e37c889e54153c806399556af45e12dc19d9a229/_select_1.43.1.jpeg" data-mid="217339483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8973a03babc32ef9add10eb3e37c889e54153c806399556af45e12dc19d9a229/_select_1.43.1.jpeg" /> Here is Some Place Else (2024) is a short documentary-style film work that unfolds the social and personal narratives hidden in landscape, exploring lost places, the idea of home, and acts of memory. The footage was filmed in late 2022 and early 2023 in the landscape near a lignite surface mine in Saxony (Germany), in the kitchen of a family home nearby, and in the collections department of a national museum in Bonn. <img width="3840" height="1634" width_o="3840" height_o="1634" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd83f65d83063b497e28ec9a5247012f40b7da4c8016a847ebd3ddcfc359e818/_select_1.23.1.jpeg" data-mid="217339490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd83f65d83063b497e28ec9a5247012f40b7da4c8016a847ebd3ddcfc359e818/_select_1.23.1.jpeg" /> The film’s subject is the disappeared village of Tzschelln, evacuated and demolished in the late 1970s to make way for a lignite surface mine. It centers around a series of audio interviews, firstly with a brother and sister who spent their childhood in the village, and secondly with staff from the national museum, and juxtaposes these conversations with images of the landscape today and with various indexes of memory: family photographs, hand-written documents, memorial markers and a large landscape painting. The work&nbsp;Here is Some Place Else becomes an additional document in this catalogue of remembrances. <img width="3840" height="1634" width_o="3840" height_o="1634" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03b3bedceed2ebde2397670ab903818936a79c3c745e0f1fda2d6b40c4e390e2/_select_1.92.2.jpeg" data-mid="217339506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03b3bedceed2ebde2397670ab903818936a79c3c745e0f1fda2d6b40c4e390e2/_select_1.92.2.jpeg" /> Here is Some Place Else,&nbsp;2024 Digital video with stereo audio: German language with English subtitles. Duration: 24:00 minsThis work was made possible through the financial support of a ‘NeuStart Kultur’ stipend from Stiftung Kunstfonds. https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Irish-Energy Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:50:04 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Irish-Energy <img width="2400" height="1601" width_o="2400" height_o="1601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca9faca1b0e5c3beade6fe7df3faacb3eca3afc41d15bcfeb917437c855d45d6/Irish-Energy.jpeg" data-mid="217389152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca9faca1b0e5c3beade6fe7df3faacb3eca3afc41d15bcfeb917437c855d45d6/Irish-Energy.jpeg" /> Irish Energy was an exhibition of contemporary Irish artists in Berlin in 2024, which had as its departure point the connections of the Germany artist Joseph Beuys to Ireland, taking its name from one of the artist’s sculptures. The exhibition touched upon topics of landscape, ecology, shamanism, magic and socio-political agency. I was involved the initial curatorial work around the exhibition along with curator &amp; artist ︎︎︎Sheena Malone, including the conceptual framework and the identification and invitation of artists. Following this initial stage I needed to withdraw my curatorial participation due to clashing commitments. Sheena Malone continued as sole curator and realised the final exhibition. The exhibition took place in the gallery ︎︎︎Die möglichkeit einer Insel in Berlin-Mitte and artists involved included Myfanwy Frost-Jones, Saidhbhín Gibson, Shane Hynan, Seoidín O’Sullivan, and Laura Skehan, along with works by myself and Malone. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfb8e17b336e56a7d71738828ac098f94e5ceaf24a12e13c31066ed0cac974b6/Irish-Energy-2.jpeg" data-mid="217390317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfb8e17b336e56a7d71738828ac098f94e5ceaf24a12e13c31066ed0cac974b6/Irish-Energy-2.jpeg" /> Exhibition: Irish Energy, 2024. Venue: Die möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin (Germany).The exhibition was part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany. Photos courtesy Sheena Malone https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Cuttings Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:22:26 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Cuttings <img width="1280" height="692" width_o="1280" height_o="692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cabe52d80c71751a5ebc4ca4fbfc783c040dadd509c94c5e64c874ea8376d26c/thepark03.jpeg" data-mid="217386994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cabe52d80c71751a5ebc4ca4fbfc783c040dadd509c94c5e64c874ea8376d26c/thepark03.jpeg" /> Cuttings (2024)&nbsp;is a video work that arose out of work and research undetaken at a 2021 residency at ︎︎︎The Watch artspace and residency in Berlin, situated in one of the last remaining East German border watch towers, an edifice now located in a park in eastern Berlin, and managed by the nearby Flutgraben studio complex. The park ‘Schlesicher Busch’ was once a vast wooded heathland on the outskirts of the old city before being almost completely consumed by encroaching urbanisation, with the park one of the last remaining fragments of this older wilderness. This park would later be absorbed into the ’no-mans-land’ or 'death strip' between East and West Berlin, before ultimately returning to recreational use after the 1990. The park is known today for, among other facets, the tableau of contestations currently playing out there: the habitation of public space by groups of young migrant men, the ongoing sale of drugs, and the drowning of a Senegalese man with some accusations of police involvement. <img width="3840" height="1920" width_o="3840" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec789adeb4de624d641343042d85c3e8f44d568e6bf98d5f0251238995382a33/default_1.17.1.jpeg" data-mid="217386996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec789adeb4de624d641343042d85c3e8f44d568e6bf98d5f0251238995382a33/default_1.17.1.jpeg" /> Through the quick juxtoposition of clips the video work scans through the layers of history that construct the space of the park, while also taking a structuralist approach recognising the research materiality of the various tools and sources at hand. This video work is part of a three-fold work including ︎︎︎Cuttings II &amp; III. The Cuttings series presents gestures and traces of landscaping, refecting on notions of the picturesque, and concerns around what may be omited, extracted and cast aside.Cuttings, 2024Digital video with stereo audio&nbsp;Duration: 3:00 mins https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Ribbon Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:13:36 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Ribbon <img width="1920" height="540" width_o="1920" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/313864e05478f58c8a822fa1c0345fbb523ff65bbe9f0e0829d59ba8c91b5921/Ribbon_1.jpg" data-mid="217391108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/313864e05478f58c8a822fa1c0345fbb523ff65bbe9f0e0829d59ba8c91b5921/Ribbon_1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="1080" width_o="3840" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2beac9ce9d7928156476d15c51db1cc3ce0008410f02ca46e259d7c17c5468b8/Ribbon_8.jpg" data-mid="217391150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2beac9ce9d7928156476d15c51db1cc3ce0008410f02ca46e259d7c17c5468b8/Ribbon_8.jpg" /> Shot over the course of a year with a smartphone camera on location in Germany, Ireland, Italy and the USA, the video artwork Ribbon (2022) works through an audio-visual investigation of environment, and of the act of film-making itself, focusing formally and thematically on structures, transitions, lines, ruptures and repetitions. The structure of edits and visual material presented is are regulated by associations, bringing the viewer through a string of global locations and personally observed and embodied moments. The work exists in a two channel version (intended for looping) and single channel verison (intended for single play-through). <img width="1920" height="540" width_o="1920" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51ad4d7cc28a41309ca733728aca37c3fd56d98c0259742a4b3bfccf7c9b5456/Ribbon_3.jpg" data-mid="217391109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51ad4d7cc28a41309ca733728aca37c3fd56d98c0259742a4b3bfccf7c9b5456/Ribbon_3.jpg" /> Ribbon,&nbsp;2022Two-channel 4K UHD, with stereo audioDuration: 10:40 mins https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Ruckkehr Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:14:56 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Ruckkehr <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8d37b53b8e2fccd23148120ee5593ec6dc3ccbd2e6a82431f64c8b8c34d4008/Ruckkehr.jpeg" data-mid="217391334" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8d37b53b8e2fccd23148120ee5593ec6dc3ccbd2e6a82431f64c8b8c34d4008/Ruckkehr.jpeg" /> “Lying on the floor, the headless wolf titled Rückkehr (2021) is a near faithful replica of an image that circulated in the newspapers, depicting the corpse of the first wolf sighted in the German region of Westerwald for over 100 years. Wolves began to migrate back into the German wild at the turn of the century, and wolf migration is now widely reported to be ‘out of control’. The sculpture has a complexity since the dead creature seems to defy easy recognition. Headless, therefore toothless, lipless and eyeless, the body now stripped of the weapons of terror and flesh that define the myth of the wolf. The refinement of the image helps us to redefine the questions we ask ourselves. Without fear, we can ask: why is this here, and why did it die?” – J.F. Rückkehr [Return] 2021PE rigid foam, modelling plaster, Plastiform, gold leaf, acrylic paintThis work was produced with financial support from Carlow County Council’s Individual Arts Act Grant Photo courtesy Beta Contemporary https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Cuttings-II-III Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:15:25 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/Cuttings-II-III <img width="1270" height="1693" width_o="1270" height_o="1693" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a99f376d6545b147189f72359335e0bc2c90acb9cd52aaa4401c26ff93b8d7a/Cuttings-II-web-2.jpg" data-mid="217391659" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a99f376d6545b147189f72359335e0bc2c90acb9cd52aaa4401c26ff93b8d7a/Cuttings-II-web-2.jpg" /> This three-fold work (2021-24) was produced out of the context of a residency at ︎︎︎The Watch in Berlin. The inital compent was a video footage shot over the course of the residency and later edited into the 2024 work ︎︎︎Cuttings. The component Cuttings III was temporarily installed as a poster on the outside of the residency location in 2021, a former East Berlin border tower now situated in a municipal park, with the duration of the exhibition determined by weathering and vandalism. The remaining photographic compoment Cuttings II was shown in the artspace Studio Beta in Berlin in a 2021 solo exhibition. The&nbsp;Cuttings series presented indexes of landscaping and place, refecting on notions of the picturesque, and concerns around what may be omited, extracted and cast aside. <img width="2000" height="1928" width_o="2000" height_o="1928" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f03bb2d60badb0e70b316ff787c5c600812e044c93b4a55b884bb10011800911/Cuttings-crop.jpg" data-mid="217392023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f03bb2d60badb0e70b316ff787c5c600812e044c93b4a55b884bb10011800911/Cuttings-crop.jpg" /> Cuttings III2021Inkjet print on poster paperCuttings II2021Digital photograph on Hahnemühle photo paper Photo courtesy Beta Contemporary https://ciaranwalsh.studio/this-was-the-source Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:10:22 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/this-was-the-source <img width="1493" height="2133" width_o="1493" height_o="2133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74e8b68102eeb5e753b8bd20db6048e31d1468119e71ca3cb3b1b4e90f9cd670/this-is-the-source--you-know.jpeg" data-mid="217394300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74e8b68102eeb5e753b8bd20db6048e31d1468119e71ca3cb3b1b4e90f9cd670/this-is-the-source--you-know.jpeg" /> “this was the source, you know (2021) is a realistic sculpted tree, painted with bright colours, which creates a tension that instantly reminds the viewer that they are not, in fact, experiencing the natural world, but rather standing before something sublimely man made. It reaches toward the feeling of the absurd; in which our desire to find universal harmony conflicts with the assertion of our own identity. This sculpture draws a line between absurdist theatre and Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “Two Men Contemplating The Moon” (1819-20). The tree depicted in two demotions in the painting is rendered by Walsh, and named after an apocryphal anecdote of Samuel Beckett, who fingers the painting as an inspiration for his play “Waiting for Godot” (1952).” – J.F. this was the source, you know2021PE rigid foam, modelling plaster, Plastiform, wood, acrylic paintThis work was produced with financial support from Carlow County Council’s Individual Arts Act Grant Photo courtesy Beta Contemporary https://ciaranwalsh.studio/The-Wind-on-the-Heath Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:23:23 +0000 Ciarán Walsh https://ciaranwalsh.studio/The-Wind-on-the-Heath <img width="2880" height="1611" width_o="2880" height_o="1611" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/604efbdf197a1a05be16df7845e58cf3bd2f44759877661f9f94373396dde548/The-Wind-on-the-Heath-2020-screencap1.jpg" data-mid="217394934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/604efbdf197a1a05be16df7845e58cf3bd2f44759877661f9f94373396dde548/The-Wind-on-the-Heath-2020-screencap1.jpg" /> The Wind on the Heath, and the complimentary video work The Mountain Stream (not pictured), explore the surface materiality of online-streamed videos and intervene in their function as a medium of communal historical memory. Each video work visually remixes and rescripts a famous German Heimatfilm (homeland film) from the 1950s.“Addressing angst originating from within, the hauntingly cut video works take classic German films and rescript the charming source material into something darker. Using only the original footage, Walsh uncovers a hidden memory buried deep within. The Heimatfilm is a genre within the German speaking regions, popular in the late 1940s, always taking place outdoors or in the wild. The films espouse the values of love, family, and idyllic life lived away from the city, forming an escapist reality of Romanticism, in stark contrast to the real world of Germany post World War Two. Walsh shines a light on the inescapable trauma of this period, suggests that there is a subliminal cultural memory, and shows that somehow inherent horror bubbles up from even the most seemingly innocuous forms of expression.” – J.F. <img width="2880" height="1616" width_o="2880" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/797d5a58913482d693e3664f95371ffab3e1ca58599fd8601c3fb23c54857326/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-11.38.46.png" data-mid="217395233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/797d5a58913482d693e3664f95371ffab3e1ca58599fd8601c3fb23c54857326/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-11.38.46.png" /> The Wind on the Heath, 2020HD video with stereo audioDuration 12:05 mins This work was produced with financial support from Carlow County Council’s Individual Arts Act Grant.